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CharleyM

@cmonagan.bsky.social
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Claude Rains, Judy Davis, Bill Bradley, Ray Davies, Aubrey/Maturin, big breakfasts, great centerfielders. Author of First They Kill You, Carrie Welton, The Easter Confession, How to Get a Monkey Into Harvard and The Neurotic's Handbook, among others.

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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s hard to digest the news that Trump wants snipers stationed at the top of his massive arch. He’s like a mentally disturbed middle school boy.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Election balloting can be ornate and complex, but I've checked with the League of Women Voters and in every state, it is permissible to take a guide into the voting booth with you. I hope this can be of some assistance:
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Mimi G @glorydayzzz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Some of those ads paid for with taxpayer $ were anti-marijuana legalization & definitely affected the vote (along w/the state GOP changing vote number requirements.) I can’t conceive of how many years it will take to undo the corruption & damage & illegalities of the DeSantis MAGA administration.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The United States has never looked weaker or more ridiculous and incompetent to allies and enemies around the world than we do right now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Greatest economy ever”
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER SERVED, TO ANYONE WHO'S EVER LOST A LOVED ONE, WHILE TRUMP FAKED BONE SPURS, THIS IS OBSCENELY DISGUSTING.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Donald Trump prefers N Korea (“unthreatening and respectful”) over Canada. It’s like we’re trapped in an insane asylum.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I don’t like anything about this
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sorry just to be clear - is it THIS @billoreilly telling @chrisccuomo he's so horrified at "gutter snipe" @jonossoff for mentioning (doting Trump sycophant) Natalie that he'd vote for Putin over him? Or is it a different Bill O'Reilly? Just want to make sure we're accurate in our reporting!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A reminder for Democratic Party leadership: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democrats — support it.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sure, let’s betray S Korea because of course in Trump’s America, we prefer alliances with oppressive, murderous dictators who flatter Donald.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So we have partisan political police in the middle of a work day attending a political rally in uniform. Looks like Nuremberg in 1936.
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you hold your coffee mug with two hands you know you’re in a drug commercial.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
this
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ICE Showed Up At The Gate. One Worker Said No.
The officer didn’t have a warrant signed by a judge. Plus: a Bush appointee halted Trump’s ballroom, and the jobs he bragged about never existed.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last night, the GOP members of the Senate approved Trump’s effort to destroy the rule of law in the US, wreck the Justice Dept., enable rampant corruption, defend pedophiles, and attack the president’s enemies. And they know they did those things. An egregious violation of their oaths of office.
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🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP CANUCK! 🇨🇦 @comeoncomet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
RFK is getting rid of organ donation programs and vaccine requirements for lethal diseases. He credits heroin for helping him study in college. Fauci was a principal architect PEPFAR, a program credited with saving an estimated 25 million lives. One is being investigated.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you hold your coffee mug with two hands you know you’re in a drug commercial.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2026
this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/07/2026
They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.
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Andrew @andrewgowen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
America voted for this administration. I’m lost for words.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2026
Fox set up a whole-ass news desk for the Great American State Fair and barely anybody showed up. ☠️
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/06/2026
The Trump administration has rolled out AI powered surveillance cameras with motion tracking, facial recognition, spotlights, and horn speakers. This story really encapsulates everything wrong about this administration. Now they're turning the reflecting pool into a surveillance state nightmare.
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"He appeared destitute of all powers of reasoning, incapable of any intellectual exercise, and especially of any such effort as might enable him to break through his concentrated selfishness, and feel or show sympathy with any living being." - London Times describing Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz, 1872
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"He appeared destitute of all powers of reasoning, incapable of any intellectual exercise, and especially of any such effort as might enable him to break through his concentrated selfishness, and feel or show sympathy with any living being." - London Times describing Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz, 1872
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Besides the fact that he didn’t vandalize anything, the 3-time Olympian is 67 years old and has been retired from competition for 24 years.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’m not too embarrassed that we are losing to Iran. It’s a big boy country with missiles and drones and so forth ran by stone cold killers. That’s NFL ball for you. I am a little embarrassed we are also losing to algae.
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Dopes and war losers at US Open chanting "USA!" when Scheffler makes a put.
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Matt Monagan @mattmonagan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So, the cast from Napoleon Dynamite bought a baseball team. I went to the small town of Richmond, Indiana - more readily known as the lawnmower capital of the world - to learn more about how this all happened. www.mlb.com/news/napoleo...
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Gosh! The cast from 'Napoleon Dynamite' bought a baseball team
RICHMOND, Ind. -- Richmond Flying Mummies part-owner Matt Bomberg talks about what it means for the stars from such a gigantic movie to take interest in this little city of 35,000 in eastern Indiana. ...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 17/06/2026
Donald Trump converted the White House into a money-making operation for himself, his family, and his closest advisors and biggest campaign donors. It's endless corrupt self-enrichment from a president who says he doesn't "think about Americans' financial situation.” No kidding.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/06/2026
It’s so funny how, this deal is very typical of trump (cave after a bit of pressure from the other side because you’re a total wimp, give them everything they want now in exchange for them giving vague promises of future action) and now it’s so utterly obvious even the post can’t spin it
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Maga trash on the White House Lawn! Good job ‘Merica. #Pinks
So let's be crystal clear about what happened on the White House lawn. A UFC fighter, Josh Hokit, grabbed the mic after his bout at
"UFC Freedom 250" and screamed that "Michelle Obama is a man" while birthday boy Donald Trump sat ringside and Joe Rogan grinned ear to ear and just moved on like it was normal.
This is not "edgy humor." It is a racist, transphobic, misogynistic slur aimed at a Black woman who spent eight years representing this country with more grace and dignity than Trump and his MAGA hangers-on could fake in a lifetime.
This is what "freedom" means in MAGA-world: Freedom for racists to demean Black women's bodies, mock trans people's existence, and turn the People's House into a backdrop for bigotry.
Call this what it is: hate, vile racist, hate broadcast from the lawn of the White House, under Trump's watch, for the world to see.
And then organize, register, vote, and make sure these people never again get to use our institutions as a stage for their bigotry.
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic
still from a tv showing coverage of the UFC white house fight. it's joe rogan in an ugly tie that's too short holding a microphone and looking like a blister with acne. You can see the white House in the background.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What’s even the deal here? What does Trump get out of this that the United States did not have before Trump started this war? Seriously.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/06/2026
Sunday fact: Russia has sustained at least 1.4 million casualties in the war with Ukraine. In fact, that’s 50 percent more than the US in all of WW2 on two fronts liberating and occupying the world. Russia now controls less land than they had one month into the invasion. Slava Ukrainii!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
No op-eds in major newspapers that he has major cognitive health issues. No cable news panels exploring whether he has major cognitive health issues. No political reporters in legacy media talking about his cognitive health. They're all too scared to question the naked emperor.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Can you spot the difference?
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Kane Kavikaloha @kavikaloha.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Alex Pretti & Renee Good
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley was fired. Bari Weiss and Co are day by day killing a great journalism institution. For what? To appease a man who despises journalism, free speech, democracy and American values. Infuriating.
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Several decades ago, I made it my business in print and in person to call the warm, buttery lobster roll the "Connecticut lobster roll" after the place of its invention. Remarkably, it seems at last to be catching on!!
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
10 years ago, the raucous morning birdsong around my Connecticut home began before the sun came up and continued for several hours. Now there is only silence, or nearly so. What has happened? Where have the birds gone, or why are they so quiet? Can this be the silent spring I once read about?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
When Wemby told Spurs PR to fuck off after they told him to cool it on the ICE talk: 'Yeah, PR has tried, but I'm not going to sit here and give some politically correct answer, I think it's crazy that some people might make it seem like or make it sound like the murder of civilians is acceptable'
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Spurs' Victor Wembanyama 'horrified' by Minnesota shootings
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama on Tuesday articulated his thoughts on a pair of fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis, saying, "Every day I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified."
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CharleyM @cmonagan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
When I was young, Major League baseball games started at 8 on the East Coast. Then games got very long so the start time was understandably moved to 7. Now games are shorter again but start times are creeping up to 6:15 or 6:30. Why is this happening? What societal change is causing it?
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